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Re: Enabling remote participation at Folsom Design Summit

 

The PSF has had fairly good luck with Ustream for our members' meetings.
They are 1-way, though, so questions or comments from remote participants
have to be relayed by someone in the room (we used IRC).

On Thu, Mar 22, 2012 at 1:44 AM, Marton Kiss <marton.kiss@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Ustream broadcast as an alternative option?
>
> Marton Kiss, CTO
> Xemeti
> On Mar 21, 2012 11:54 PM, "Debo Dutta (dedutta)" <dedutta@xxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
>
>> SW side: Another option would be to run webex meetings or even google
>> hangout!
>>
>> debo
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: openstack-bounces+dedutta=cisco.com@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> [mailto:openstack-bounces+dedutta=cisco.com@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
>> Behalf Of Stefano Maffulli
>> Sent: Wednesday, March 21, 2012 3:35 PM
>> To: openstack@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> Subject: Re: [Openstack] Enabling remote participation at Folsom Design
>> Summit
>>
>> I'm still loooking for *hardware* to make this happen.
>>
>> Lets try to make this more sexy and see where to cook hackers are: what
>> if we buy a few beaglebone boards ($89 each) and spend a weekend hacking
>> a streaming server on them?
>>
>> The boards are cheap enough and should have enough power to acquire
>> audio, convert it to mp4/h264 using their hardware and send the stream
>> over to a public icecast server. As with many other things, the software
>> is already out there, it needs hammering, put it together, testing and
>> praying it works at the summit.
>>
>> Any volunteer?
>>
>> Or any other option? Cheap desktops would work too: I wouldn't refuse
>> Dell or HP to ship 6 of their smallest machines either :)
>>
>> let me know, please.
>> Cheers,
>> stef
>>
>>
>> On Tue, 2012-03-06 at 13:47 -0800, Stefano Maffulli wrote:
>> > Hello folks,
>> >
>> > since the next design summit is sold out and many people are still
>> > interested in participating, I believe we should really make remote
>> > participation possible.
>> >
>> > Imitating Ubuntu Developer Summit, I think the ideal situation is to
>> > have in each room:
>> >
>> >  - 1 omnidirectional microphone to capture discussions and questions
>> >  - 1 streaming client hooked to a public icecast streaming server
>> >  - 1 IRC channel per room
>> >  - 1 projector showing the content of the IRC channel
>> >  - 1 projector available for collaborative note taking via etherpad
>> >
>> > And for plenary session:
>> >
>> >  - full audio/video service
>> >  - IRC channel, not shown but monitored in case there are interesting
>> > questions
>> >
>> > We'll also need dedicated bandwidth from the Hyatt hotel, networking,
>> > firewalling and the whole shabang. Anything else?
>> >
>> > I will start investigating what Rackspace can provide but this is a
>> big
>> > task and I would like to make this a shared effort.
>> >
>> > If you have experience with this, and want to help me get the
>> equipment,
>> > software, services needed to enable remote participation to the Design
>> > Summit please email me.
>> >
>> > Thanks,
>> > stef
>> >
>> >
>> > [1] http://uds.ubuntu.com/community/remote-participation/
>> >
>> >
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